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St. Peter Damian's Book of Gomorrah Part I A Moral Blueprint for Our Times by Randy Engel Editor's Note: CFN has asked Randy Engel to help clarify the basic issues surrounding clerical pederasty and homosexuality in the Church today. She has studied and researched the homosexual network in the Catholic priesthood and religious life for more than thirteen years and we believe that her commentary based on the works of the 11th Century Italian monk St. Peter Damian will help put the current crisis into a proper perspective for our readers. A December 2003 date has been set for her...

In his zealous letter penned in 1049, famously titled The Book of Gomorrah, St. Peter Damian admonishes bishops to stamp out the "epidemic of sodomy among the priests of Italy," which was part of a "plague of sexual perversion" and a "larger crisis of moral laxity in the priesthood" of his time. In his letter, St. Peter decried the silent bishops who failed to take action against clerics immersed in the grievous moral perversion of sodomy: Listen, you do-nothing superiors of clerics and priests. Listen, and even though you feel sure of yourselves, tremble at the thought that you are partners in...

St. Peter DamianFEBRUARY 21 SAINT PETER DAMIAN, OR OF DAMIAN, CARDINAL, BISHOP OF OSTIA From his life by his disciple, John of Lodi, in Mabill. s. 6, Ben., and from his own writings. Fleury, b. 59, n 48, and Hist. des Ordres Relig.; Ceillier, t. 20, p. 512; Henschenius ad 23 Febr. p. 406. A.D. 1072 Peter, surnamed of Damian, was born about the year 988 in Ravenna, of a good family, but reduced. He was the youngest of many children, and, losing his father and mother very young, was left in the hands of a brother who was...